10 Movies About Real Wars (That Were Terribly Inaccurate)

9. Red Tails

20th Century Fox20th Century FoxAnthony Hemingway helmed the director's chair for George Lucas's ill-fated pet project Red Tails, about the Tuskegee Airmen, the African-American servicemen who took to the skies in World War II in the fight against fascism. Lucas's first offense was to cinematic heritage - in pre-release interviews and promotional material he went out of his way to imply that Hollywood hadn't done a movie about black men in warfare despite their being a number of films which explore precisely that subject (he even absurdly suggested that Hollywood doesn't want to touch "black movies" at all). The second offense was the lack of clarity that the events being depicted were largely fictional - contentious aspects which were challenged by the Commemorative Air Force's Red Tail Squadron included the number of losses the Tuskegee Airmen suffered and their overall record. It's highly unlikely that a stronger focus on reality would have made much difference to Red Tails' box office performance - hardly the most subtle or nuanced filmmaker at the best of times, Lucas's attempts to make a war movie with political commentary on the role of black minorities fails on every level.
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